3. After MEP Elections: a New PETI Committee

Just like MPs, not all MEPs get re-elected.

And those who were members of the Petitions Committee (PETI) may not get re-elected into the Committee again. So I was lucky to be invited back to the new Petitions Committee soon after the election and summer break, to inform them of our plight: this was on 11 November 2014.

The new Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikstrom was a superb chair for the meeting. I made special efforts to alert PETI members of my impending visit, and managed to see quite a few of them, or at least their assistants. As a result, they were far more prepared for the discussion and a long list of positive outcomes and actions was compiled.